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Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Here is cool Canadian military personnel flight from CYOD Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake located within the City of Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada to CYWG Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada bringing home the Canadian soldiers who are starting their vacation on leave.

Taxiing to short of runway 31R

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Holding short of runway 31R waiting for bad weather to clear

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Weather has cleared up meaning time to enter into runway for take off via ITPEL depature

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Check out beauty of sunrise!!!!

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Airborne on climb to FL350 showing amazing view of wet runways!!

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Climbing through thick clouds

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What a combo view of tail and sunrise plus colorful sky!!!

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Making left 180 degree turn toward ITPEL

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Still climbing to FL350

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Check out sunrise

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Nice wing view of Canadian winter landscape

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Passing Frog Lake

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Cruising at FL350

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Intercepting ITPEL above North Saskatchewan River

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Getting ready to turn left to head to YXE

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Turning right to avoid incoming Canadian geese flying at high altitude

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Now turning left with background view of the same river and Jackfish Lake to head to YXE

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Intercepting YXE above city of Saskatoon and its CYXE Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport and heading to YQV

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Cruising at FL350 along J515

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Intercepting YQV above city of Yorkton and its CYQV Yorkton Municipal Airport located 2.8 nautical miles north of the city center.

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Now at 10,000 ft above Lake Manitoba on way to the runway 18

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Deploying landing gear in middle of nasty snowstorm

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Seconds before touchdown

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TOUCHDOWN

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Engaging reverse thrusters on super icy snowy runway

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Exiting from runway on way to passenger apron

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Thank you for viewing and stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards,

Aharon

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  • Deputy Sheriffs

Nice shots!

I have one question though: are geese really flying that high?

Looking forward to your next flights.

Tom.

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  • Aerosoft

Thank you, Aharon, very "eddjumacational"!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Goose#Migration

"The maximum flight ceiling of Canada Geese is unknown, but they have been reported at 9 km (29,000 feet)."

Holy crap.

I live under a migration route so we see a lot of them twice a year, but even at 1000 meter they would be hard to see and obviously they are lower when they fly by here. Sometimes I see them race by if they got a good wind, they seem to love that because that's when they make most noise.

But 9.000 meter? That's cold and there is not a lot of pressure. I am amazed they can even stay aloft at that altitude.They must be able to extract a lot of oxygen from the rarified air.

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Thanks all for kind words.

TomA320, Olli4740 already beat me for answer to your question. Geese can fly up to FL250 but the world's highest altitude bird is Rüppell's Vulture or Rüppell's Griffon Vulture bird which can fly up to FL370 (no typo).

Regards,

Aharon

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